Question

Which TWO sentences in this excerpt from Emmuska Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel show the perspective that the French Revolution was barbaric?

A. A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

B: The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.

C: During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

D : It was to be seen every day, for those aristos were such fools

E : They were traitors to the people of course, all of them, men, women, and children, who happened to be descendants of the great men who since the Crusades had made the glory of France: her old NOBLESSE

Answer 1

The correct answers are A, and C.

Step-by-step explanation:

"The Scarlet Pimpernel", is the first of a series of novels that were written by Emmuska Orczy, in 1905, and which narrated the events that took place during the Reign of Terror, after the first part of the French Revolution. One of the things that is portrayed by this novel is the existence of bravery, and heroism, in a man, who decides to dedicate himself to save French nobles who are about to be sent by the newly established reign of terror by Napoleon Bonaparte. But it also portrays the horror, and terrible abuses, that took place during a revolution that was supposedly launched in defense of all those principles, and high ideals, that supposegly gave birth to it. It shows the barbarism of actions that took the lives of both innocent and guilty, at all times, and without cease. The two parts of this excerpt that shows these barbaric actions, this terror, are the A and C passages.